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1. Leather Goods
There are so many things you can do with leather and so many ways to treat it that you will be working with it for a long time before you have mastered every aspect of leathercraft. Yet, despite this fact, you can begin to create things made of leather immediately and with no training. The Tandy Leather Company, which has five stores in and near New York City and many others throughout the country, makes your first lessons in leathercraft simple and productive. Tandy and many hobby shops sell complete kits for leather workers. Each kit contains all the materials needed to make one item and complete instructions so simple that even a tyro can follow them successfully. The kits are highly recommended for the beginner. They break you in slowly but surely and prepare you to tackle the more involved phases of leathercraft. The Tandy man (or woman) knows leathercraft and can give you sound advice on the choice of leathers for different purposes and on the tools you need. A good book for the beginner is Leather Work by Grete Petersen, published by Sterling Craft Books in 1960. Another that is recommended is General Leathercraft, by Raymond Cherry, published by McKnight & McKnight in 1949. The latter book has 365 photographs, with some fine how-to illustrations. Suggested items for the beginner to make are belts, purses, wallets, key cases, and brief cases. Even if you do not buy a prepared kit for one of these things, you can produce it simply by cutting and stitching. If you can draw (or even trace), you can hand-tool your leather products, or burn designs in them with an electric needle. By using a die (which you can buy at Tandy's and many hobby shops) and a hammer, you can stamp designs into leather. If you have a strong, steady hand, you can carve designs into leather by using a swivel knife, carving stamp, and mallet. Articles like handbags, brief cases, waste baskets and book covers, in particular, lend themselves both to the use of cowhide and to embellishment of the incisions and carvings for which cowhide is so suitable. The effect is luxuriant. Even everyday things such as school notebook folders can be beautified by simple carved designs. Or you can make them appear elaborately designed by providing built-in contrast. You can achieve this contrast by judicious use of a suitable leather dye, which you can purchase in a variety of colors and in adequate quantities from most craft supply houses. You can get unique effects by combining two or more kinds of leather, or different colors, in a single article. Gold, too, can be used for elegant effect in embossed designs. You will probably start your part-time career in leather with something as simple and clean-cut as a bookmark. If you really enjoy leathercraft, you may begin to work on fancy pocketbooks and soft moccasins before very long, and soon you will be trying hard to keep up with the demands of your leather-loving admirers.
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